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Bernhard, Thomas

 
9780394572536: Extinction: A Novel
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 039457253X ISBN 13: 9780394572536
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995

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Living in self-imposed exile from his Austrian family, Franz-Josef Murau learns of the accidental deaths of his parents and eldest brother, which make him the new head of the family and force him to confront past demons.

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Thomas Bernhard was born in 1931 and grew up in Salzburg and in Vienna, where he studied music. In 1957 he began a second career as a playwright, poet, and novelist. A winner of the three most distinguished and coveted literary prizes awarded in Germany, he is one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation. His works already published in English include the novels Gargoyles, Tire Lime Works, Correction, Concrete, Woodcutters, Wittgenstein's Nephew, and The Loser, and a memoir, Gathering Evidence. A number of his plays have been produced off-Broadway and at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and at theaters in London and throughout Europe. Thomas Bernhard died in 1989.

For his translations of works by Thomas Bernhard, David McLintock was awarded an Austrian state prize in 1986, and i

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e Thomas Bernhard, arguably Austria's most influential novelist of the postwar period, and one of the greatest artists in all twentieth-century literature in the German language, his magnum opus.

Extinction, Bernhard's last work of fiction, takes the form of the autobiographical testimony of Franz-Josef Murau, the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family. Murau lives in Rome in self-imposed exile from his family, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sister's wedding to the "wine-cork manufacturer" on the family estate of Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master of Wolfsegg. And he must decide its fate.

Divided into two halves, Extinction explores Murau's rush of memories of Wolfsegg as he stands at his Roman window considering the fat

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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
039457253X
ISBN 13 
9780394572536
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